A Network of Southern African Communities Living Near Mines
Community Alerts, Mpumalanga, Carolina, Lorraine Kakaza, 2018/10/03 Building participation and advocacy among mining communities,CSO’s This is the National Workshop on legislative processes and mining communities By IANRA, Action Aid and Benchmarks Foundation working on EU project. IANRA was formed in 2008 with 50 organisation working in 14 countries Different mining affected communities from different organisations …
Community alerts, Mpumalanga, Phola/ Ogies, Millicent Shungube, 2018/10/15 Collapsed ceiling at school due to blasting While doing our door to door social udits we came across a very beautiful school that was built by one of the mines, the principal of the school welcomed us in. The reason we went to the school was to …
Community alerts, Mpumalanga, Empumelelweni, Mapule Mdluli, 2018/09/30 The water problem in Empumelelweni The water problem has gotten worse over the past few years.We spend days, weeks even months without getting a single drop of water from our taps in our homes. People are forced to find other means of getting water. As water is life …
Community alerts, Mpumalanga, Empumelelweni, Musa Dlamini, 2018/09/30 Poor service delivery in Empumelelweni In Emalahleni at Empumelelweni is an informal settlement. Our roads are not tarred they are sloppy and “gedukile “.This “geduka ” it is caused by heavy rains. We use rocks and waste to close the holes. We are scared that if we leave …
Community alerts, Mpumalanga, Phola //Ogies, Florence Mohlala,2018/09/27 On the 21st we went to Makause section at Phola /Ogies to talk with the community about the Social Audits and Social labour Plan. We did the consultation section by section. During the meetings people were so angry with the mines when they heard about SLPs. Some of …
Community alerts, Mpumalanga,Emalahleni, Collen Jolobe, 2018/09/21 On the 20th September I attended a IWRM course Module 3 which was held at Kaia manzi resort in Bronkhospruit. We as social activist organisations we did a presentation about our case studies which we did for the changing practice course by Rhodes University,EMG and AWARD. The course was …
Community alerts, Mpumalanga, Kendal, Phola/Ogies, Valencia Ndlovu, 2018/09/19 This is Kendal in Mpumalanga people living around here dont see the reason of voting on the coming elections because they always vote but there is no change. They dont have proper houses, the water that is delivered its always dirty and that causes sicknesses and so …
Community alerts,Mpumalanga, Phola/Ogies, Siyabonga Lukhele, 2018/09/17 As residence of phola township we are facing a sewage problem in the community hall and the municipality doesn’t care about our health and the issue. I’m writing this as a concern community member because there are government departments with offices there and some organisations. people will get sick …
Community alerts, Mpumalanga, Carolina, Lorraine Kakaza, 2018/09/ Mining affected communities representatives are at DMR offices as per invitation. It was acknowledged after the mining charter consultation in nine provinces that took place few months ago and the summit. They have considered our submissions and the closing date was extended to August 2018 due to the …
Community alerts, Mpumalanga, Phola/ Ogies,Jane Bhudha, 2018/09/06 From the 5th September the Municipal at phola decided to build in speed humps around the phola location. This was because people driving on the streets are driving with maximum speed as if they are on a free way. last month there was an incident whereby a car …
Tunatazama is a southern African network of community organisations living near mines. This network is supported by The Benchmarks Foundation, Southern Africa Resource Watch, Zimbabwe Environment Law Association, Centre for Environment Justice, Associação de Apoio e Assistência Jurídica às Comunidades, Norwegian Church Aid - Tanzania, and the Maluti Community Development Forum.
